Word: civilizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent article in the Yale Law Journal suggests that federal juries in civil cases be drawn from the community where the cause of action arose, and in criminal cases where the crime occurred. In this way, most blacks would be judged by substantially black juries. At the same time, a black who committed a crime in a white area would get a substantially white jury (and vice versa). If and when integration occurred, all juries would reflect that...
...Church on Chicage's South Side and perennial president of the National Baptist Convention U.S.A., Inc. (he claims 6,000,000 members), is in his mid-60s. But there is more than a generation gap between him and Calvin Marshall. Jackson bitterly opposed Martin Luther King's civil-disobedience campaign, and has so vigorously quashed liberal opposition within his denomination that half a million members (including King) left in 1961 to form the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. He was one of the few black leaders to endorse Richard Nixon (with little effect) in the last election; outspokenly...
Jackson earnestly preaches national unity. "The most important thing now," he says, "is to save the nation, in order to save the individual citizen, and the race." Probably few blacks, however, share his opinion that the civil rights struggle is disruptive of that unity. "It was supposed to be a struggle for first-class citizenship, not for getting Whitey," Jackson maintains. "Those who wanted their rights are being sold another bill of goods now. There are Negroes who believe their mission is to destroy America...
Though he is broad-minded in some areas of theology (he is a graduate of liberal Colgate Rochester Divinity School), Jackson has a view of the Negro recalling the old-fashioned suffering servant image from Isaiah. Christianity, he argues, permits protest against unjust laws but not rebellion against civil order. "The difference between Negro Christians and white Christians." says Jackson, "is the meaning of the cross of Jesus Christ. Our forefathers were cross-bearers. They believed in it. You can't build a great church preaching hate, envy, and revenge, and sending the people out on the street after...
...distinguished reporter and foreign correspondent who became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Ambassador to Finland and director of the U.S. Information Agency. Rowan now writes a thrice-weekly column carried by 150 newspapers. As a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, Rowan made a reputation covering civil rights, later received assignments on major nonblack stories. He covered Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the Midwest and the Hungarian and Suez crises...